Browse
This is the archive of all the old shared content.
With the premier yearling sales in Australia in the books for another year, the focus of the bloodstock world will turn back to the upcoming breeding season, and breeders and owners will have a chance to stock up their barns at the Inglis Australian Broodmare & Weanling Sale, which runs May 3 to 6 at...
One of the most popular races on the Japanese calendar, the G1 Tenno Sho (Spring), at 3200 meters, is the Japan Racing Association’s longest race. Deep Impact (Jpn) (Sunday Silence) holds the course and track record for his Tenno Sho score in 2006, and while progeny of the champion sire have conquered almost every major...
If form means anything, Saturday’s G2 Dunaden at Overbury Jockey Club S. at Newmarket should be cut and dried for ‘TDN Rising Star’ Telescope (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}). With only four runners lining up, the early marker of the strength of the older horse scene in Europe suggests that it is weaker than usual and Highclere Thoroughbred Racing’s already...
By Daithi Harvey A high-class field of 19 colts has been declared for the first European Group 1 of the season, the QIPCO 2000 Guineas, at Newmarket on Saturday. The Aidan O’Brien-trained Gleneagles (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) is the market leader as he bids to get his 3-year-old career off to a perfect start. He is joined by...
On the face of it, Gleneagles (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) has it all going for him as he heads to post for Saturday’s G1 Qipco 2000 Guineas at Newmarket. Hailing from Aidan O’Brien’s stable, which with six wins in the famed Classic is just one shy of equaling John Scott’s record, Michael Tabor’s handsome bay is partnered by...
Racing NSW has purchased A$1.5 million worth of “state of the art” drug-testing equipment, which has the ability to screen for more than 8000 different types of drugs in any single analysis of a swab. While up to a few years ago technology could test for only a few hundred drugs stipulated in advance, the...
Unbeaten ‘TDN Rising Star’ Dortmund (Big Brown) will face five rivals in Saturday’s GI Santa Anita Derby while a field of seven are slated to line up for that same day’s GI TwinSpires.com Wood Memorial S. at Aqueduct. The Kaleem Shah colorbearer, last seen wiring the GII San Felipe S., will re-oppose Prospect Park (Tapit) and Bolo (Temple City), the second-...
By T.D. Thornton Anthony Bonomo has been voted chairman of the New York Racing Association Reorganization Board in a proxy vote by the organization’s board of directors, according to a report in The Saratogian. The same story also reported that Tuesday’s scheduled NYRA open board meeting—its first since December—was called off because of “Governor Andrew...
by Alan Carasso For 36-year-old trainer Olly Stevens, Saturday’s GI Ashland S. will be a homecoming of sorts. Again. When last seen at the historic Lexington oval, Stevens was unsaddling Qatar Racing’s Peace and War (War Front) following a somewhat improbable victory in the track’s GI Darley Alcibiades S. on the first Friday of October 2014. With...
The Kentucky Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association, Keeneland Racecourse and Churchill Downs Racetrack have formed a partnership designed to generate funds for the work of the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance, the non-profit organization that serves as both an accrediting body for facilities that care for Thoroughbreds at the conclusion of their racing careers and a fundraising...
In the absence of the G1 1000 Guineas-bound High Celebrity (Fr) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}), today’s G3 Prix Imprudence looks a soft touch for His Highness Aga Khan’s Ervedya (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}) as Maisons-Laffitte hosts the first significant Classic trial of 2015. Whether or not the leading 3-year-old filly of the Pau stable of Jean-Claude Rouget will be...
Thursday’s G3 Prix Djebel at Maisons-Laffitte offers the opportunity for a clutch of French colts to stake a claim for the G1 2000 Guineas, with one of the most intriguing being the unbeaten Andre Fabre project Make Believe (GB) (Makfi {GB}). A half-brother to the high-class Dubawi Heights (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}), Prince Faisal’s rare foal purchase had...